[Zeek] Extending zeek with rust

[Quentin Mallet]

Thank you very much for your instructive answer. That's pretty much what I figured, either wrap it up or start writing bindings until my fingers bleed, still it's better to get an expert's opinion before resigning oneself. 
Regards, 

On 13 Jan 2020, 23:03, at 23:03, Johanna Amann <johanna at icir.org> wrote:
>Hi Quentin,
>
>> I've been looking at several plugin examples for zeek and I have 
>> failed to
>> find a definite answer to the following question: is it possible to 
>> write
>> zeek plugins in Rust? The obvious way would be to compile any rust
>> implementation in it's own lib and then wrap it in C/C++ but I would 
>> be
>> interested in something more "native".
>
>Disclaimer: I have not used Rust myself.
>
>The only API that we currently provide for writing plug-ins is based on
>
>C++. So - Zeek has to be able to call into your code with the C++ API 
>that it expects, and your code has to be able to call back into Zeek.
>
>The way that you outline - with the Rust code in its own library - 
>sounds like the easiest alternative.
>
>If Rust can directly call into C++ - and can generate a library that is
>
>callable in exactly the way that C++ expects, you might be able to make
>
>this work without the wrapper - but after a short peek into the 
>documetation this does not seem trivially possible.
>
>Johanna
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